Project Finance Associate I

**What We're Looking For** At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. This opportunity entails being responsible for maintaining project-related financial data in HNTB's project management system, ensuring alignment with current client contracts, including change orders, subconsultant agreements, and approved unauthorized work. The Project Finance Associate supports the project finance team to ensure billing compliance with contractual documents. Responsibilities include coding project costs, such as subconsultant expenses, expense report receipts, and vendor invoices, with appropriate project accounting codes in accordance with standard procedures and contractual requirements to ensure proper entry into HNTB's project management system. **What You’ll Do:** Accurately updates the project management system by translating client and project workplan data based on contract and change order review. Facilitates the ability to access and charge to project tasks and phases in the project management system. Ensures project costs are properly coded and allocated by maintaining awareness of project status and adapting financial data as needed due to project changes. Manages cost transfers to and from projects/tasks. Supports the project finance team in reviewing and approving project invoices, updating invoice requirements from contractual documents, verifying billed costs, and ensuring compliance with reporting requirements, including insurance certificates and adherence to client systems and formats. Generates routine internal project financial performance reports for project and office teams. Reviews vendor/subconsultant invoices for accuracy and contractual compliance, including DBE and insurance certificate requirements. Obtains necessary approvals and tracks internal workflow status for timely outcomes. Supports the project team in maintaining client and subconsultant relationships and communicates receivables updates as directed by the finance team. Assists in subcontracting processes throughout the project lifecycle. Supports the proposal process, including gross margin analysis, cost proposal development, alignment with the project management system, and client proposal/estimate formats. Performs other assigned duties. **What You’ll Need:** Associate’s degree, or In lieu of education, 2 years of relevant work experience **Additional Information** Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. \#EL . Locations: Baton Rouge, LA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:_ _HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees._ **Job Type:** Regular **Full/Part Time:** Full time **Job Category:** Finance Group **ReqID:** R-29801